![]() ![]() Still despite all that, it avoids taking any stances on controversies that bother all of us in modern times. I think that makes it more worthwhile to watch. Kudos to the director! Such existentialist reflections aside, there are many instances when the movie makes a statement about unethical corporate practices, evasive HR responses - almost to the extent 'Michael Clayton' did. I don't recall many other movies that have expressed it so well that in isolation, nothing really means anything. To cite an example, the isolation of Sam made him more attached to memories of his life on earth. ![]() In general, do expect a lot more than space travel in this movie. Like Solaris, the protagonist's recollections of the life on earth eventually result in some mental instability, but the movie stays away from getting into long philosophical debates on human experience or our place on earth. I found the movie to be a bit more accessible than Tarkovsky's Solaris in that it is much more fluid and entertaining (Solaris was 3 hr long – executed very slow albeit with a similar idea). It does make good use of classical music like Kubrick's. This work won't be unworthy of a comparison with Kubrick's- space odyssey – only that it is probably not as visually stimulating as the latter. It was as if the movie took a while to ponder over philosophical questions that science and technology raise- something that every science fiction ought to do. It wasn't just the cinematography, few captivating shots of the moon surface, or the great acting performance. On my visit to the local independent movie theater, I was only expecting something like Apollo 13 and I would've been satisfied with just that. I was led to this movie, partly because of a sort of dissatisfaction from what we've known as science fiction due to Star-Treks, Star wars, terminators and transformers.
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